

BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Unsure about title author publisher etc. Books are without marks or writings pages are clean and books are tight and sturdy. The pages have started to age brown evenly throughout. All volumes have marble pastedowns with the endpapers being cut away probably from publisher. All volumes have what appears to be a pencil line on the bottom edge near the spine. The outsides are in good plus condition there is one volume ILLUSIONS PERDUES having a small chip to the top right edge of the spine. with the book being in French!!! Overall a good plus set.


CONDITION: Unsure about title author publisher etc. with the book being in French!!! PUBLISHER - LOCATION / COPYRIGHT: SOCIETE D'EDITIONS LITTERAIRES ET ARTISTIQUES PARIS 1901 EDITION: First Edition assumed for this publisher ISBN: None CATEGORY: Foreign Decorative Literature BINDING/COVER: Hardbacks without dust jacket COLOR: Marble SIZE: 5 � x 8 � approximately PAGES: Various pages. DE BALZAC Unsure about title author publisher etc. PARIS: SOCIETE D'EDITIONS LITTERAIRES ET ARTISTIQUES 1901. It never was a love match.United Kingdom Reino Unido Reino Unido Royaume-Uni The age gap was considerable – thirty-two years – and was arranged in gratitude for Francois’s assistance to the family. He changed his name to Francois Balzac to sound more like the aristocrats he now interacted with, and eventually married the daughter of a wealthy family, Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier. As a young man, he worked hard to climb up the social ladder and eventually did so, working for the governments of both Louis XVI and, later, Napoleon. Honoré’s father, Bernard-Francois Balssa, was from a large lower-class family. Quote: "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.Selected Work: Les Chouans (1829), Eugénie Grandet (1833), La Père Goriot (1835), La Comédie humaine (collected works).Key Accomplishments: Groundbreaking French novelist whose realist style and complex characters shaped the modern novel.
